2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Oregon

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 46 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,900 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Oregon

#1

George Fox University

Newberg, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$22,955 Average Net Price

$61,516 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Fox University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon For Those Making $0-$30k list. Newberg, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

GFU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. It costs about $22,955 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend George Fox University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering at GFU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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